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Cyclist Laughs in Face of Armstrong's Toughness

by Spencer Hall • Jun 20, 2008 10:30 AM EDT

If you've ever flown facefirst into a ravine, raise your hand. You there? Yes. It hurt, right? And you died from massive internal injuries, right? And are currently dead?

Good. Clearly, you are not cyclist Frank Schleck, who improbably survived a fall into a ravine after crashing over a guard rail at 40 miles an hour during the Tour de Switzerland. Remember: you can watch and laugh, because he didn't die, an important rule when watching people eat it on bikes or skateboards on the internet.

Schleck, who after the race attributed his good luck to a charm his mother gave him to wear, actually finished the race with little more than cuts and bruises.

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unless the good luck charm his mother gave him was one of those flying squirrel suits or a quick deploying parachute, he clearly is dead and re risen making him the messiah or a zombie. don’t take chances, get him!

by GreivisVasquezTurnoverMachine on Jun 20, 2008 10:55 AM EDT reply actions  

I took a bicycle up one of the White Mountains in New Hamster…. then I got pitched off it on a decline, fell 100 feet, knocked myself out…. it was my 31st birthday.

by L'etat, c'est moi on Jun 21, 2008 9:21 PM EDT reply actions  

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